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Share your crack. No, not of the plumber’s variety. The kind that’s created from our neural noise that tells us we’re messed up in some way. It comes from this flawed premise that we seem to collectively suffer from, telling us we’re unlovable and undeserving of love. Our neural noise gets fed by thisRead more

There’s a military saying, “Embrace the suck.” It’s a very Buddhist concept. When we deny what reality is giving us, we create suffering. So life is a dance between minimizing expectations and surrendering to what our lives actually reveal to us. By embracing our lives totally (even the stuff that “sucks”), we get throughRead more

I was asked to be a presenter at this year’s Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (GATE) Conference this past weekend. Some of the other speakers included Jim Carrey, comedian Louie Anderson, filmmaker Tom Shadyac, and many other inspiring artists. I wasn’t prepared. That can be a very sobering realization when you’re about to speakRead more

I think part of the challenge of being on a spiritual journey is that sometimes we can get all “Lama-Dama-Ding-Dong” about it. We think enlightenment is serious or we express these platitudes of love and peace and Kumbaya – when in actuality, real transformative, spiritual change occurs by getting into the nitty-gritty of itRead more

Life is full of challenges. That’s the way it is. It makes it interesting and builds character. But we don’t like them, do we? We mislabel them as “problems” because we’re taught culturally to seek pleasure and avoid pain at all costs. We’re spoon-fed images that life is about having the perfect house with theRead more

Life isn’t a destination. There’s nowhere to get to. Once you get married or book your TV show or win your award or buy your house or any of the number of things you desire as the end goal, you’ll discover that once you have them, your life is still the same. Sure, the external,Read more